Delaware Gazette And American Watchman

A Town To Be LET.—Liverpool has grown up with a rapidity entirely unexampled in England, or in Europe indeed, and the chief cause of its prosperity has been its being the port where most of the English trade with this country is carried on. But it is sharing now in the general depression of all business in that Kingdom, and the house-holding interest especially suffers. It is said in the Liverpool Journal, that in one district alone, namely, the south-eastern environs of the city, there are no fewer than nine hundred houses to be let, whole streets of new erections being in some places entirely untenanted; a proof of how much faster building has been carried on by the capital of the few, than the means of the many have increased. Of population itself there is no lack, but the unprofitableness of trade, the absorbing powers of taxation, and the low rates of wages in general, prevent many thousands of persons from emerging from crowded lodgings and gloomy cellars, and becoming house holders.